SRDP (Small Ruminants Development Programme)
Key message: Gender Balanced Development through efficient goat and sheep rearing practices.
Description
Supporting the District Sheep Breeders'Union and Primary Village Cooperatives for the efficient management of their own organisation and providing effective services to its members. Interventions aim to improve productivity of sheep and goats in the selected villages for sustainable livelihoods. The programme focuses on shepherds and goat keepers. During this phase the emphasis is on strengthening the cooperatives and establishing an alternative health delivery system through doorstep (flock site) animal health workers.
Initiatives are also being taken in developing and managing land and water resources. The participants in the land and water development programme include rearers and non rearers; members and non members, with and without land. The aim is to build up a system for the effective and efficient use of land and water resources within a watershed.
Action Research on "balanced nutritive feed to improve productivity of small ruminants" is also initiated with the support of the Agricultural University.
Local partner: District Sheep Breeders Unions
Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Fact sheet
Type: Trust fund project
Start: 2000 End: 2005
Joint venture with: Government of Andhra Pradesh, District Sheep Breeders Unions (Cooperatives)
Region: South Asia
Country: India
Working domain: Natural Resource Management | Local Governance and Civil Society
Key topic: Organisational development | Self-help groups and CBOs | Livestock production and management | Common property resources: pastures and shifting cultivation | Common property resources: water | Gender balanced development | Rural livelihoods and poverty | Capacity building | Research methodologies
Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Staff
Project responsible: Rebecca Katticaren |
